"Bagnio" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... assure you, Mr. SPEC, I was very near being qualify'd to have given you a faithful and painful Account of this walking Bagnio, if I may so call it, my self: For going the other night along Fleet-street, and having, out of curiosity, just enter'd into Discourse with a wandring Female who was travelling the same Way, a couple of Fellows advanced towards us, drew their ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... suggested, is evidently a corruption of Mu'mil—"the workman, the employee."[EN11] I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zib being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomn—"the bagnio, the prison for galriens." On the coast-town I procured some specimens of heavy red copper which had been dug out of a ruined furnace; the metal is admirable, and it retrieves to a certain extent the lost reputation of ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton
... comes, to the bagnio he goes, And orders the landlord to bring him a whore; No scruple came on him his gown to expose, 'Twas what all his life he had practised before. He made himself drunk with the juice of the grape, And got a good clap, but committed ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... Bellmour. At the same time he reveals his love as though he told the tale of another, but he is met with scorn and only bidden to fight the husband who has repulsed her. Bellmour, meantime, in despair and rage at his misery plunges into reckless debauchery, and in company with Sir Timothy visits a bagnio, where they meet Betty Flauntit, the knight's kept mistress, and other cyprians. Hither they are tracked by Charles, Bellmour's younger brother, and Trusty, Lord Plotwell's old steward. Sharp words pass, the brothers fight and Charles is slighted wounded. Their Uncle hears ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... the less in proportion as the air is saturated with vapors. Dr. Berger, who supported for seven minutes a temperature varying from 109 to 110 C. in dry air, could remain only twelve minutes in a bagnio whose temperature rose from 41 to 51.75. At the Hammam of Paris the highest temperature obtained is 87, and Dr. E. Martin has not been able to remain therein more than five minutes. This physician reports ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various
... in Madrid," AEsop resumed, "and not being inclined to follow the foolish example of my companions, which led each of them in turn to you know what, I cast about to make myself comfortable in Madrid. I soon found a way. I set up an excellent bagnio; I lured rich youths to the altars and alcoves of play and pleasure. I made a great deal of money, and enjoyed myself very much incidentally. It is always a pleasure to me to see straight, smooth, suave men ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy |
